African figures by the artist Finela

Goldenfish

This tiny texture-craft image has been chosen to head this website because of it's personal meaning to Finela, as it came about some time before the arrival of her two precious children.

Copyright of work: Please note that the artist retains all copyright of her images, and that all rights are reserved.

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Figures & Nudes

Welcome to more "Figures & Nudes" by the artist, Finela Moore

The following work was completed largely between 2004 to 2006

*"hints of America Dreaming"* 30"x 60" mixed media on 2 canvas's	*"Woman of Africa"* 30"x 60"mixed media on 2 canvas's	*"Dancer in repose* 30"x 60"mixed media on 2 canvas's
"Pure Joy" 4.5"x 5'5" mixed media on canvas	*"Angelic Hosts"* 4.5"x 5'5" mixed media on canvas	"Saint in Full Flight 4.5"x 5'5"mixed media on canvas

"Bohemian Rapsody"

2006

Remember the "Queen" song of the same name?! This phase of work largely include leaping or dancing figures, mostly female, representing a phase of joyful self acceptance. The works are textural, monochromatic in general appearance yet highly colourful when viewed closely. As with most of Moore's work from recent years it has a general appearance of classic works & drawings from antiquity. The background is textured with the usual surprising mix of shapes and objects that characterizes Moore's work, then it is built up from bright washes and layered paint upon paint, finally sepia-washed to give it the appearance of old parchment. The figure is shaped and textured and slowly built up with varnish washes and rubbed off paint until it acquires an almost realistic, neo-Da Vinci feeling, while maintaining the slight naivite and almost cartoon-like nature that creeps into Moore's figures in certain phases of her work.

40 inches x 40 inches in quadtic

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Still-life

Landscapes

"Dusky Melissa"

"Leaping figure"

of the series of "four canvas quadtics" featuring moving figures

"Informed repose"
(2'x3') Mixed media on canvas

"Edge, Love, Torso"
(14" x 12")
Mixed media on canvas

"Silk and Sensitivity"
(3' x 4')
Mixed media on canvas

"Sheer Delight"
(14" x 12")
Mixed media on canvas

"Copper Torso Quartet"

"Moving into white"

"Reclining Nude"

"Tirau Precipace Set" 2004

9 foot wide mixed media on stretched canvas

"And the greatest of these..."
in blue & grey

fig 1

"And the greatest of these..."
in blue & grey

fig 2

"And the greatest of these..."
in blue & grey

fig 3

"Dance of the rising fawn"

fig 1

"Dance of the rising fawn"

fig 2

"Dance of the rising fawn"

fig 3

"The gentle victory"

"The things of Him"

"Blue rust repose"

"Movement in three, Blue steel"

"Child of the Day"

"Paper passion"

"Michael stand up"
diptyche

"Long blonde animals"

"Leap": fawn series

"sketch for blue repose"

"The birth of life and love"
Janus passing by

"Atillah the gentle"

"Narrow"
Fawn series

"Madonna of scars and rust"

"Nude on a wall"

"Relaxing season"

small diptyche

"Resting easy"

"The patchwork madonna"
1 of 2

"Summer has broken"

"Reclining in rust"

s posed figure

"Umber in Quattro"
set of four square midsection focus figure studies

file of past "African figures" by Finela Moore

These African figures were done in Africa up until the year 2000

Figures & Nudes

F1 "Wave back robe" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas	F2 "Terracotta robe & pipe" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas	F3 "Gesture of arrogance" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas
F4 "Dancing figure 1" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas	F5 "Gemini looking twice" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas	F6 "Vigour & life" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas
F7 "Ebony & gold" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas	F8 "Twin experience" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas	F9 "Gazing afar" (2'x3') Mixed media on canvas